Surgical procedure on a heart and adjacent organs
1970
From the collection of Leiden University Libraries
1970
From the collection of Leiden University Libraries
Surgical procedure on a heart and adjacent organs is a 1970 by H.G, Wetselaar, held at Leiden University Libraries.
This drawing shows a human heart cut open. You can see the thick walls of the chambers and the tubes coming in and out. The artist used shading to make the muscles look real. The drawing looks like it was made to teach about how the heart works inside. The artist focused on the details of the heart’s shape and the tubes connected to it. If you like this, look up cross-hatching to see how artists create shading like this.
H.G. Wetselaar spent his days hunched over microscopes in a quiet Leiden lab, sketching what most people ignore. His pencil caught the raw architecture of bodies we pretend are smooth—like the knotted muscles of a…
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